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Calling all Tall Poppies
Calling all Tall Poppies
The hunt is on again for the Far North’s tall poppies, in this year’s Top Energy Tall Poppy Business Awards.
Set up to recognise and celebrate excellent business practice, the annual Tall Poppy Business Awards are contested throughout the region and have been sponsored by local lines company, Top Energy since 2003.
Entry categories for this year’s Awards include
Tourism & Hospitality, Service Industry, Retail,
Manufacturing & Primary, Building, Construction &
Development, Trusts / Charities & Not-for-profit
Organisations and Emerging Business.
Winning a Tall Poppy
Business Award offers recipients many tangible rewards,
including:
the opportunity to refocus their
business’s core strengths and competitive
advantage
the discipline to review their
organisation’s controls, systems and processes
a
chance to foster a unified team culture and reinforce for
staff, a sense of pride in their organisation
new
levels of enthusiasm and motivation, as they work through
the Awards entry process
business excellence
recognition, accolades and trophies
‘Awards Mark’
usage
additional market exposure
This year’s
Awards will again be judged by a panel of three independent
judges; Jacky Stevens (Business Consultant), Maurice Penney
(Top Energy Consumer Trust, Deputy Chairman) and Gary
Gabbitas (FNDC Economic Development Officer).
Says Russell Shaw, Top Energy CEO, “There’s no doubt it’s been a tough couple of years for many Far North Businesses. But the fact that so many are here and thriving is testament to the skill and tenacity of the people who operate them. This year’s Awards offer a chance for them to get the recognition they deserve and a way for our community to recognise and celebrate outstanding business achievement across our region.”
Entries close 5:00p.m. Friday 23
July 2010. Judging takes place during August and September
and Award winners will be announced at the Awards
Presentation & Dinner on Saturday, October 2.
To enter the Top Energy 2010 Tall Poppy Business Awards, visit www.topenergy.co.nz for an official Entry Form, along with information and tips on how to enter
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